Dauphin County

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

In south-central PA, northwest of Lancaster; organized Mar 4, 1785 from Lancaster County. Name Origin: To honor France, ally of the American states in the Revolutionary War, by use of the hereditary title of the eldest son of the king of France, dauphin. Louis Joseph (1781-89), son of Louis XVI (1754-93) and Marie Antoinette (1755-93), was dauphin at the time the county was established.

He said, I quote: I dont know how it could possibly be fair to force my constituent who lives in, say, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, why they should pay more in income taxes to subsidize somebody who gets to live in a multimillion-dollar condo in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Bryn Mawr Trust operates 25 full service retail bank locations, eight limited-access retirement community locations in Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Philadelphia Counties in Pennsylvania and New Castle County, Delaware, and one limited-service branch banking location in Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

It has been responsible for a whole string of disasters; the Windscale Chimney Fire in 1957, Three Mile Island, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA, 1979; Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 and the recent disaster at Fukushima.

Wind Energy America, a company involved in building and operating public-utility associated wind energy projects, has obtained wind expansion rights over 650 acres of land in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Nicknamed as Grosser Mountain Wind I, this first ever Pennsylvanian energy project of WEA is situated in the northeast of Harrisburg.

nCourt, LLC, a leading national provider of eFiling and payment solutions for lower courts, today announced that its electronic traffic and citation payments system has been selected by Dauphin County, Pennsylvania for use by 18 District Courts.

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